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Constitutional amendment process

The process by which amendments to the US Constitution are proposed and ratified.

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Jan 25, 2026
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Can a president serve more than two terms if non-consecutive?

The Constitution’s bars any person from being elected president more than twice, a rule ratified in 1951 in response to . That plain text makes a non‑consecutive “third elected term” impossible under ...

Jan 25, 2026
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Would excluding noncitizens from apportionment require a constitutional amendment or could Congress change the practice by statute?

The Fourteenth Amendment’s apportionment provision directs that Representatives be apportioned “, counting the whole number of persons in each State,” language that has been read historically and by s...

Feb 2, 2026

How did the House vote on the final passage of the 16th Amendment and what were the yeas and nays?

approved the resolution proposing the by a recorded "yea" and "nay" vote — 318 yeas to 14 nays, with one Member voting "present" and 55 not voting — and that measure later completed congressional acti...

Feb 2, 2026

did congress and senate activate the 25th adminment

and have not "activated" the 25th Amendment; Section 4—the involuntary transfer of power mechanism—has never been invoked, and Congress’s principal statutory role is limited to adjudicating a presiden...

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